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What I don't like about rich is that, dependencies and all, its installed size comes out to around 20 MB. 9 MB of that is due to its dependency on pygments for syntax highlighting, which a lot of people probably don't even want/need.

If anyone knows of a smaller, more focused library providing something similar to rich's Live Display functionality, I'd appreciate it.

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There is an open issue [1] on GitHub to make it more modular and get rid of markdown and syntax highlighting but I have no hope for rich to get more minimal.

[1]: https://github.com/Textualize/rich/issues/2277

It’s a bit obvious, but you could contribute to make pygments an optional dependency, and then not install that. Or you fork it outright.

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